An Education Policy for a Free-er Society

Education, within any Economy, can play an important role in advancing human capital which can drastically effect the GDP of a given nation. There are many policies surrounding education but, McCloskey believes education policy needs to be less socialized than it is today appealing to a more liberalized policy. He recommends and critiques that "you and I be taxed... to finance the education of the poor" but that, "financing by voucher is not the same as governmental provisions". McCloskey shows it is important to fund education as it increases economic growth and the human scope of life but, orders from the government to staff schools by public employees is a very socialized idea and that can quite possibly take away from primary and secondary education.

With these criticisms of primary and secondary education, McCloskey continues his criticism of education being too socialized into higher education where he calls the "triumph of the Administrative University" deplorable. McCloskey attributes the shockingly bad quality of higher education to the impulse of central planning, the idea that things can be easily planned and need to be. He believes education, much like the economy, "the more complex and specialized and spontaneously bettering an economy [education] is, the less it can be planned". This idea of planning, shown through the "Federal Register of eighty thousand new pages every year or, in universities' bulky faculty handbooks", leads in the opposite direction of Liberty 

Through these examples, McCloskey has shown education policies that we follow today in which do not promote free society. We should listen and learn from McCloskey because education plays a huge role, if not the most important, in economic growth because of the importance of human capital, and when we can educate with purpose, not force, "liberalism leads to riches and liberty [within education] for the working class.